Pearls Of Hikmah

Reflection (Taffakur) on Great Words from Great Religions

If you want to Draw Near to God

If you wish to draw near to God,

Seek him in the hearts of those around you.

Speak well of all, present or absent.

If you would be a light for others,

Be like a sun: show the same face to all.

This is the true lover of God,

Who lives with others,

Rises and eats and sleeps like others,

Gives and takes in the Bazaar,

Yet never forgets God even for a moment.

(Abu Sa’id)

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Let me walk in the beauty

And let my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.

Make my hands respect the things you have made

And my ears grow sharp to hear your voice.

Make me wise so that I may understand the things

You have taught my people.

Let me learn the lesson you have hidden

in every leaf and rock.

I seek strength not to be greater than my brother or sister

but to fight my greatest enemy, myself.

Make me always ready

To come to you with clean hands and straight eyes

So when the life fades as the fading sunset

My spirit may come to you without shame.

(Native American Tradition)